Fall-Winter 2014-15

The Fall-Winter series has ended.  Please see the current schedule HERE

All Colloquia will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Building 3 (Goett) auditorium, except as noted.

If you would like to attend and do not have a NASA badge, please contact the Scientific Colloquium at (301) 286-8168, more than 48 hours beforehand. Use the same contact information to be added to our mailing list.  Access to Goddard Space Flight Center is limited to those holding Goddard badges or official visitors.  You can become an official visitor by finding a badged Goddard employee to escort you.  The Scientific Colloquium Committee cannot promise to provide escorts. 

The Goddard Library has made streaming video available for most of our recent colloquia -- click on the V in the column to the right of the topic.  Some videos are also available for Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010,  Spring 2010,  Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008,  Fall 2007,  Spring 2007,  Fall 2006,  Spring 2006,  Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Fall 2004, Spring 2004,  Fall 2003,  Spring 2003, Fall 2002, Spring 2002, Fall 2001, Spring 2001, and Fall 2000.

Current Schedule

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Video
TUES. Sept. 23
3:45 p.m.
 Mario Livio
 Space Telescope Science Institute
 Brilliant Blunders
Special Colloquium in cooperation with the Astrophysics Science Division Colloquium
V
Oct. 1 Paul Mahaffy
 Goddard Space Flight Center
 THE JOHN C. LINDSAY MEMORIAL AWARD AND LECTURE
Chlorinated Organics in a Gale Crater Mudstone and the Imprint of an Ancient Fluvial Environment in 3 Billion Year Old Water Found in a 4 Billion Year Old Martian Rock
V
Oct. 8
 Shawn Domagal-Goldman, Michael McElwain
Goddard Space Flight Center
 See the Ball, Be the Ball: How to Find and Characterize Planets Beyond our Solar System

V
Oct. 15 Jason Kalirai
 Space Telescope Science Institute
 The End Fate of Our Solar System
 V
Oct. 22
 No Colloquium



Oct. 29
Bldg. 8
Aud.
 John Degnan
 Sigma Space A Celebration of Fifty Years of Satellite Laser Ranging

In Cooperation with the 19th International Workshop on Laser Ranging
Co-sponsored by the Engineering Colloquium

V
Nov. 5
 Benjamin Johnson
 University of Maryland, Baltimore County
 Life of a Snowflake
 V
Nov. 12
 Jonathan McDowell Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Space and Earth: How the Search for MH370 Reveals the Ubiquity - and Limitations - of Surveillance from Space

Co-sponsored by the Engineering Colloquium
V
Nov. 19 Louise Prockter Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
 The Science and Exploration of Europa V
Nov. 26 No Colloquium


Dec. 3
 John Priscu
 Montana State University
 Sources and Sinks of Methane in Aquatic Environments beneath Polar Ice V
Dec. 10
 Gabriella Coleman McGill University
 Geeks, Hacker Culture, and Anonymous
 V
Dec. 17, 24, 31
 No Colloquia


Jan. 7
 Roberta Rudnick University of Maryland Earth's Unique Continents V
Jan. 14
 Matthew Hertenstein DePauw University Foibles of the Predictive Mind V
Jan. 21
 John Spencer
 Southwest Research Institute, Boulder
 Saturn's Icy Satellites V
Jan. 28
 Owen Brian Toon
 University of Colorado
 Dead Dinosaurs and Nuclear Wars  V
Feb. 4
 No Colloquium


Feb. 11
 Jocelyne DiRuggiero
Johns Hopkins University Desert Worlds: the Dry Limit for Life V

Other Information

Other Colloquia at Goddard

Scientific Colloquium Committee

Anand Bhatia
 Carlos Del Castillo
 Alexander Marshak
 Dong Wu
 Richard Ray, emeritus
Pawan Bhartia
 Jim Foster Michelle Thaller Larry Kepko, emeritus Ed Sittler, emeritus
Padi Boyd Demos Kazanas Dave Thompson, Chair Conor Nixon, emeritus
Eric Brown de Coulston Hans Krimm Melissa Trainer
 Ann Parsons, emeritus


Previous Schedules: Fall 1998, Spring 1999, Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Fall 2000, Spring 2001, Fall 2001, Spring 2002, Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003,
Spring 2004, Fall 2004,  Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006,  Fall 2006,  Spring 2007,  Fall 2007,  Spring 2008,  Fall 2008 Spring 2009 Fall 2009 Spring 2010 Fall 2010 Spring 2011 Fall 2011  Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013,  Fall 2013, Spring 2014

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2011 (alphabetic by name)

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2011 (chronological)

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